Our Articles on the Attacks Trump Says the Media Didn’t Cover

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Belgians gathered on March 23, 2016, to pay their respects in front of the old Brussels stock exchange after a terrorist attack the day before killed dozens and wounded hundreds.CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York Times

The White House has issued a list of 78 terrorist attacks, saying most were underreported. The Trump administration, under fire for immigration restrictions and other policies it says are designed to curb terrorism, has portrayed the news media and other institutions as playing down the threat.

But the list, which was released on Monday night and details episodes from September 2014 to December 2016, includes dozens of attacks that were covered heavily in the news media, including by The New York Times. (Examples are included in the list below.)

Just as striking was what the list excluded: attacks targeting Muslims, who make up the overwhelming majority of victims of Islamist terrorism.

The list does not mention, for instance, two suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed dozens in November 2015, or the wave of Boko Haram attacks across northern Nigeria, which have been among the world’s deadliest terrorist assaults.

Though there have been many attacks in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, the list mentions only one: a June 2016 bombing that killed Nepali and Indian security contractors. The list describes the target as “a bus carrying Canadian Embassy guards,” which is correct but in keeping with the document’s emphasis on Western targets — a focus that is sometimes misleadingly narrow.

Prominent attacks carried out by non-Muslims are also conspicuously omitted. In June 2015, Dylann S. Roof opened fire in a predominantly black church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine. That November, three people were shot to death at a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs. Robert L. Dear Jr., describing himself as a “warrior for the babies,” acknowledged that he had carried out the attack, but he was later declared mentally unfit to stand trial.

And in at least one of the attacks on the list, terrorism has been ruled out. A knife attack that killed two British backpackers at a hostel in Queensland, Australia, was found to be a common crime, not one related to terrorism, the Queensland police have said.

Right-wing violence has been rising in the United States, according to a recent report by the New America Foundation, and has in some years claimed more lives than Islamist attacks in the country.

The White House’s list, by focusing on a significant but narrow slice of terrorism, feeds into perceptions that the administration is seeking to target Muslims with other policies, particularly its immigration restrictions against predominantly Muslim countries.

Here is the list from the White House, along with our references to news coverage. Some names from the list have been edited to correct spelling.

Paramedics and police officers pulled a victim away from the Canadian War Memorial in Ottawa on Oct. 22, 2014. A soldier standing guard at the memorial was killed by a gunman, who then entered the nearby Parliament building and fired multiple times before he was shot and killed.CreditAdrian Wyld/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

OTTAWA

When: October 2014

Target: One soldier killed at war memorial; two wounded in shootings at Parliament building

Visitors inspected the extent of the damage caused when militants opened fire at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 18, 2015, killing 21 people.CreditMohamed Messara/European Pressphoto Agency

TUNIS, Tunisia

When: March 2015

Target: Tourists. 21 people were killed, including 16 Westerners, and 55 were wounded in a shooting at the Bardo Museum.

Coverage: *The White House cites a knife attack. The Times has no coverage of a knife attack, but it did report on a shooting of an American woman who worked as the vice principal of student affairs at a private medical school.

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PARIS

When: April 2015

Target: Catholic churches targeted; one civilian killed in a shooting, possibly during an attempted carjacking

Coverage: At least two articles covered this episode, in which Mr. Rahim was shot and killed by an F.B.I. agent and a Boston police officer after he waved a long knife at them and refused to back down. First article. Follow-up.

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AL JURAH, Egypt

When: June 2015

Target: No casualties; camp used by Multinational Force and Observers troops attacked in shooting and bombing attack

Egyptian security officials inspected the site of a bomb blast at the Italian Consulate in Cairo on July 11, 2015, that left one person dead. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.CreditMohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

CAIRO

When: July 2015

Target: One Croatian national was kidnapped and beheaded on Aug. 12 at an unknown location

A gunman during terrorist attacks in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 14, 2016. Four people were killed and more than 20 were wounded in shootings and bombings.CreditXinhua, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

JAKARTA, Indonesia

When: January 2016

Target: Four civilians killed and more than 20 wounded in coordinated bombing and firearms attacks near a police station and a Starbucks

An earlier version of this article referred incompletely to the knife attack at a hostel in Queensland, Australia, in August 2016. The Queensland police have said the attack was not related to terrorism.